Doctors could then diagnose disease right down to the molecule, helping them prescribe the best form of treatment the first time around.
Apart from potential computing applications, plasmonics can be used as biosensors, making it possible to more easily determine what your body is doing, and potentially make it easier for doctors to diagnose disease.
The company also must show that there is no comparable device available to treat or diagnose the disease or condition.
Doctors often fail to diagnose the disease, and sometimes suggest extreme (and useless) remedies such as removing sweat glands or hysterectomy.
Genito-urinary consultant, Dr Carolyn Thompson, said that many health authorities in Scotland still use an out-of-date swab test to diagnose the disease.
"Many countries are seeing the rising tide of an epidemic and all doctors need to know how to recognise and diagnose this disease and what treatments are available, " he said.
To find it, we must accurately diagnose the disease.
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And scientists hope that in the future differences in what microbes live in us and on us will be used to diagnose and prevent disease.
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But Private Health is also an adaptation of the rapid advance of modern medicine, which throws off ever more and better ways to diagnose and treat disease and ultimately extend lives.
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Researchers are now studying whether gut neurons, which can be sampled through a routine colonoscopy, may help clinicians diagnose and track the disease without invasive brain biopsies, says Pascal Derkinderen, a professor of neurology at Inserm, France's national institute of health.
"It is likely to play an important role in learning both how to diagnose and treat the disease, but it's still an open question at this point for asymptomatic people, " said Dr. Park, a behavioral and brain-sciences professor who uses Amyvid in her research on aging of healthy older adults.
Primary care docs take pride on their ability to diagnose rare cares of serious disease.
She was the first doctor to diagnose him with a psychotic disease, Pietz said.
In the traditional model of medicine, a doctor takes samples, has these analysed and uses the results to diagnose the presence of a disease.
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Though the project still has a long way to go, it has already helped develop a test to diagnose the early stages of the disease.
The imaging agent can't be used to diagnose someone with Alzheimer's disease if the individual doesn't experience memory impairment because the presence of amyloid in the brain doesn't alone suggest that someone has Alzheimer's.
The idea is that some day soon, doctors will be able to automatically alert their public health department and the CDC when they diagnose a patient with a communicable disease of concern, such as whooping cough or tuberculosis.
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This product is not intended to diagnose, treat, cure or prevent any disease.
GPs need to be given the tools to recognise allergic disease early and know how to diagnose and manage it or at least know when to refer on.
Quinn and his colleagues randomly assigned about 400 women and men in their mid-70s with likely Alzheimer's disease -- the disease is very difficult to accurately diagnose -- to take 2 grams of DHA or placebo capsules per day.
Although there doesn't appear to be a direct link between diverticular disease and colon or rectal cancer, diverticular disease may make cancer more difficult to diagnose.
The winning device, to be determined in about three years, will use sensors to diagnose a dozen medical ailments, such as heart disease and diabetes, as well as, or better, than a team of doctors.
He sees a patient whose peculiar symptoms do not conform to any known disease, but before he has a chance to diagnose the man's ailment, the patient dies in a fire.
It is a disease which can be treated, but is difficult to diagnose.
Even though the disease is not uncommon, doctors can misinterpret these symptoms and diagnose the patient as suffering from chronic fatigue syndrome and irritable bowel syndrome.
The discovery of the gene that controls Rett syndrome could lead to the development of a test to diagnose the disorder before birth and new methods to prevent the debilitating effects of the disease.
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The narrow window of time to diagnose and successfully treat a patient makes the treatment instead of the prevention of meningococcal disease a dubious strategy.
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